Technology area: Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering
1 pending office actions • 1 art units • 1 examiners • 0 of 1 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready
Komatsu Ntc Ltd. has 1 pending office action in Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering. The matter involves 1 distinct examiner and 1 art unit, producing a focused prosecution profile.
CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES is the busiest examiner, with 1 pending matter. Counsel should use the single record to align claim amendments and technical arguments with the examiner’s identified deficiencies.
Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 1 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.
Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.
| Bucket | Cases |
|---|---|
| §101 + other | 1 (100%) |
How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.
Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.
| Examiner | Apps on this docket | Allow rate | Interview lift |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | 1 | 58.0% | +41.8% |
Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18579837 | WIRE SAW ABNORMALITY DIAGNOSIS DEVICE AND METHOD | CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | 22d |
Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 1 ordered by deadline are shown.
| App # | Title | Examiner | Due in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 18579837 | WIRE SAW ABNORMALITY DIAGNOSIS DEVICE AND METHOD | CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | 22d |
| Art Unit | Apps |
|---|---|
| 3723 | 1 |
| App # | Title | Examiner | Art Unit | Statutes | Status | Due in | AI | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18579837 | WIRE SAW ABNORMALITY DIAGNOSIS DEVICE AND METHOD | CHANG, SUKWOO JAMES | 3723 | §101§103 | Final Rejection | 22d | Pending | Jan 16, 2024 |
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Start Free TrialKomatsu Ntc Ltd. has 1 pending office actions as of October 2026, spread across 1 art units and 1 examiners.
Sukwoo James Chang has the most, with 1 of Komatsu Ntc Ltd.'s pending office actions.
Mostly Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering (USPTO Tech Center 3700), based on where its pending office actions are examined.
